If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. - Michel de Montaigne

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?

I know no marriages which fail and come to grief more quickly than those which are set on foot by beauty and amorous desire.